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Eufalconimorph,

Not directly, but they improve the low-power modes substantially, and using the low-power modes for longer times is the solution. Inverters aren’t strictly needed, but they do make it better.

Eufalconimorph,

At what point does it become ok to have an open bed?

When the distance from the back of the truck to the front of the bed is longer than the distance from the back of the cab to the front of the truck, it turns from a Sport Utility Truck into a Pickup Truck. Typically that’s around when the bed gets big enough to haul a sheet of plywood or drywall safely.

Of course it’s OK to have an SUT instead of a pickup truck, just not as useful for construction work.

Eufalconimorph,

I said nothing about safety. I just said it should be considered a different class of vehicle if it meets certain characteristics. SUTs are great for camping, for hauling surf boards & kayaks (possibly with a rack) and tow just as well as pickups. They don’t have a full-size bed, so they’re worse at most jobs, though the larger cab does mean they can carry more workers at once. It’s a trade-off: get worse at most work-related tasks, get better at personal tasks and thus reach a wider market.

Eufalconimorph,

Motorola Razr IIRC. First smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S.

Eufalconimorph,

Mostly joking, but Farenheit is % hot outside.

0°F is 0% hot. Jacket, pants, boots, scarf, etc.

30°F is 30% hot. Shorts, but with boots & an unzipped jacket.

60°F is 60% hot. Shorts, short sleeves, & sandals.

80°F is 80% hot. AC recommended.

100°F is 100% hot. AC or you’ll melt.

120°F is Phoenix, Arizona, a city which should not exist and a temperature which should not exist.

Eufalconimorph,

People use computers to accplish tasks. That requires running software on an OS, but nobody runs software or an OS just to sit & watch it exist. They run it to accomplish tasks.

Different distros mostly vary in how easy it is to accomplish various tasks. No one distro is the easiest for everything, so people make different choices depending on their needs.

Eufalconimorph,

Lol! All the historical booms and busts before we stopped using the gold standard apparently didn’t happen. Just a conspiracy by historians or something.

Eufalconimorph,

I’m the same way. I’m happy with my life, overall, but of course there are improvements I could make. There is pleasure in achieving something long striven for, and there is displeasure in the striving. More money would achieve some of the things I want more quickly, but none are critical so the balance is better with a longer wait and lower stress.

Eufalconimorph,

Negative absolute temperature is a thing. Lasers exhibit negative temperatures when active, i.e. the lasing medium has a negative temperature expressed in Kelvin. Adding more energy doesn’t increase its entropy, it just turns into more laser light. Any such system with bounded entropy can have a negative thermodynamic temperature.

Eufalconimorph,

Eh, as a weirdo who uses Celsius a lot but lives in Buffalo, NY…

-20s is cold. Coat, gloves, scarf, & hat. Long underwear. Not too much evaporation from the lake since it can freeze, so not much snow.
-10s is chilly. Coat, probably zip it up towards the lower end of the range. Decent chance of apocalyptic snow.
0-10s is cool. Wear a sweater.
10s is nice. Maybe consider long sleeves & pants if it gets a bit cooler.
20s is shorts & t-shirt weather.
30s is all AC, all the time. Uncomfortably hot not too far into the range.
40s is “the humidity is now so high the air is soup, filled with mosquitoes”.

Eufalconimorph,

You use the cleaning function first, then the dry function. Don’t just dry the shit on there (well, maybe you would, but everyone else washes first, that’s the point of a bidet).

Eufalconimorph,

Pretty much how I DM.

Bosses have prep time. Glyph of warding can be cast on a page in a book, with trigger conditions specified by the caster. E.g. when a good-aligned creature with ≥8 int comes within 10ft of it.

Explosive runes are 5d8 damage (dex save for half) per glyph.

Nothing says it can’t be cast on more than one page.

A 50 page book with a glyph on every page means 100 dex saves for 5d8 each. Evasion is nice but you’ll fail a save eventually.

Your “friendly” neighborhood lich has had time to prepare dozens of these. That tempting library full of magical books might just be a TPK.

As a “consolation prize” at least the player gets to roll 100 d20s at once! Multiple times if they survive the first book.

Eufalconimorph,

Oh, I’d only do that if the players are similarly powergaming. If they’re not it’s unfair, if they are the base game balance becomes koring. The challenge should scale to the party!

Eufalconimorph,

Wave/Particle duality of quantum objects (quanta) is a bit like bicycle/car duality when looking at motorcycles. Light isn’t a wave or a particle, but it has properties of both. Motorcycles aren’t pedal-powered bikes or cars, but have properties of both.

There are no particles, just quanta.

Eufalconimorph,

Gravitons are the name for the quanta of the (hypothetical) quantum gravitational field. They’d be the force carriers of the gravitational force in a theory of quantum gravity, if we had one.

Gravitational waves would still be physical waves like water waves, and they’d be composed of moving gravitons. Spacetime would likely be quantized instead of continuous; this becomes very hard to resolve since quantum mechanics needs to be reformulated to use discrete math instead of calculus, and we don’t really know how to do that (non-uniform spacetime breaks QM).

Eufalconimorph,

Yeah, not disagreeing there!

Eufalconimorph,

Budgerigars (small parrots).

They’re active, smart, and social. They fly.

So I made them a flight cage that takes up most of the room they’re in. I’d prefer a full walk-in aviary, but don’t have room in my apartment.

Cleaning isn’t bad, I just shop-vac out the litter tray & refill it with a 20lb bag of corn cob bits. Fresh food in the mornings, take it out & replace with pellets around noon. Clean water daily. Millet treats when I let them out (about an hour per day to interact with them).

Feathers get everywhere when they molt. And feather dust. Their room has its own HEPA filter.

Vet appointments are more expensive for exotics than cats & dogs. There are fewer exotic vets, and I always go to a board certified avian vet. Boarding when I go on vacation is also more expensive (about $50/day), especially since they’re flighted.

They’re not anywhere near as loud or destructive as larger parrots, but that doesn’t mean they’re quiet. Just means they might not damage your hearing from the next room. They wake up with the dawn, and let you know about it.

They’re extremely sensitive to airborne toxins (avian respiration is rather different from mammalian). That means absolutely no teflon cookware use, no air fresheners, etc.

Eufalconimorph,

While this will make things harder for existing birders, it should make learning bird ID easier for new birders. At least some of the time all the birds will have descriptive names (seasonal plumage variations, sexual dimorphism, and age will still complicate things).

Eufalconimorph,

Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Or anything Ed Wood directed, really.

Eufalconimorph,

Murphy’s Oil Soap for wood floors.

American Ornithological Society (AOS) Council Statement on English Bird Names - American Ornithological Society (lemmy.world)

Would be right to use the names that Indigenous peoples had been using for millennia. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) should be respected as equal to western scientific knowledge. If a species was already known to Indigenous people, it was not discovered by western scientists....

Eufalconimorph,

If they rename Steller’s Jay to Stellar Jay it’d make all the old corrections of people who got it wrong very confusing… but would be appropriate, they’re very pretty birds!

Eufalconimorph,

Threads (1984 BBC tv movie banned from rebroadcast for 40 years due to being too horrifying). It’s about the death of hope, and how all that remains after is to hope for death.

Edit: I’ve seen it once. That was enough, I never want to see it again.

Eufalconimorph,

Yep. If exemptions required a CDL there would be far fewer exempt vehicles being made.

Eufalconimorph,

Yep, providing exemptions for vehicles under the weight threshold where a commercial driver’s license is required is dumb.

Eufalconimorph, (edited )

I use NixOS & Home Manager. My config is in git, and I use an ephemeral setup with ZFS & tmpfs:

Mount layout:


<span style="color:#323232;">/		 tmpfs  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">├─/boot /dev/sda1  FAT32 EFI system partition
</span><span style="color:#323232;">├─/nix	 rpool/local/nix ZFS partition
</span><span style="color:#323232;">├─/home/persist rpool/safe/home ZFS partition
</span><span style="color:#323232;">└─/persist	 rpool/safe/persist ZFS partition
</span>

ZFS partitions under rpool/safe/ get backed up, the rest don’t need to be. Everything else can be rebuilt (and most of it gets re-created at boot anyway, since / and /home are tmpfs).

Eufalconimorph, 

<span style="color:#323232;">#define max(x,y) ( { __auto_type __x = (x); __auto_type __y = (y); __x > __y ? __x : __y; })
</span>

GNU C. Also works with Clang. Avoids evaluating the arguments multiple times. The optimizer will convert the branch into a conditional move, if it doesn’t I’d replace the ternary with the “bit hacker 2” version.

Eufalconimorph,

You mean SNI, not ESNI. ESNI is the Encrypted Server Name Indication that gets around that, though the newer ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) is better in many ways. Not all sites support either though.

Eufalconimorph,

DoH looks identical to normal website traffic. If it’s slow, it’s probably the DoH provider and not the ISP.

Eufalconimorph,

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Help soldering disconnected cable from laptop charger

How am I supposed to soldering this? I have both soldering iron and a spool of solder. But most videos show soldering wires instead of what I need as you can see in the picture (disconeted cable on a laptop charger). I would higly appreciate any info and tutorial videos on this....

Eufalconimorph,

Don’t forget to add flux to the joint! Especially for large ones like a charger, the “flux core” isn’t going to be enough. That core is just to keep the flux present as the solder flows, it won’t help remove the oxide layers from the surfaces before starting.

And use a temperature-controlled iron if possible. Much more likely to work properly, less likely to destroy the board by lifting a pad. 350°C should be plenty for most solder alloys.

Eufalconimorph,

Intimidation is a charisma skill. A hulking half-orc barbarian with violent tendencies is less intimidating than the party bard.

As a piper, obviously, the bard could threaten to play the bagpipes out of tune so I can see where WotC were going with making it a Cha skill, but still.

Eufalconimorph,

And more generally mutable aliasing references of any sort are evil. Doesn’t mean they’re not useful, just that you need magic protection spells (mutexes, semaphores, fancy lock-free algorithms, atomics, etc) to use them safely. Skip the spell or use she wrong one, and the demon escapes and destroys all you hold dear.

Eufalconimorph, (edited ) 

<span style="color:#323232;">int const golden = 1.618;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">int* non_constant = (int*)&amp;golden;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">golden = 1.61803399;
</span>

Casts are totally not a danger that should require a comment explaining safety…

Eufalconimorph,

Yep, it’s basically a way to define new groups per directory. But these groups are hidden from the normal group commands!

Eufalconimorph,

Hah! Lots of (shitty) sites don’t allow some “special” characters, like '. That’s usually a sign that they’re storing passwords insecurely, and it’s always a sign that they’re not following current security best practices (composition rules reduce security).

Eufalconimorph,

Light is made of quanta. Neither waves nor particles.

Eufalconimorph,

I deliberately run / and /home as tmpfs. Then everything I want to persist across boots gets symlinked in at system start, and anything I didn’t opt in to saving gets deleted every boot.

Eufalconimorph,

With EFI systems this doesn’t matter. It was an issue with the legacy BIOS bootloader systems about a decade ago though.

Eufalconimorph,

Not with EFI boot. If you deliberately use legacy BIOS emulation to boot, it can. So don’t do that.

Eufalconimorph,

EFI systems don’t use the MBR. Windows will default to using the whole disk if you don’t use the “advanced” button, but so will most linux distro installers.

Eufalconimorph,

If you heat carbon in a vacuum, it sublimates straight to gas. If you heat it under extreme pressure in an inert gas atmosphere, then it can melt. Unfortunately creating such pressures in the lab is only possible with diamond anvil presses, which are themselves carbon and thus tend to sublimate from the heat, resulting in pressure vessel failure. Doing the experiment on the surface of a neutron star would work, but presents some other difficulties.

Eufalconimorph,

On libc functions yes. Maybe on some from other libs, if they provide man pages.

Eufalconimorph,

Looks a heck of a lot like the RS-485 serial cable I’ve got on my desk right now. Scale is hard to tell, not sure how big that bowl is.

Eufalconimorph,

And the cashier is probably going to screw up the bagging. Does the ice cream go in the insulated re-usable bag, or does it go in a regular bag next to the room temperature canned goods? Pretty good chance it goes into the uninsulated bag, the tomatoes end up in the insulated bag with the milk, etc.

Eufalconimorph,

Many cameras these days have AI autofocus for subject detection. Phone cameras use AI image enhancemnnt by default.

Eufalconimorph,

If you can’t stop within the range of visibility, you’re driving faster than road conditions allow. That part is on the driver. The lack of barriers or warnings is on the municipality.

Eufalconimorph,

And color management. Useless for photo editing, stuck with 8-bit sRGB.

Eufalconimorph,

Yes, Krita is by far a better editor.

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